Week in Review: New Idea For Cross-Sound Rail Includes Tunnel to Port Jefferson

Parents! Tell us the good, bad and ugly about your first day of school under Princeton Plan.

Jonathan Lyed, 23, Coram was arrested at about 12:10 p.m. on Aug. 27 in Port Jefferson and charged with harassment. According to police, Lyed was a patient at Mather Hospital on North Country Road when he allegedly made a verbal threat and attempted to attack a nurse. Lyed was restrained until police arrived.

The fabled cross-Sound tunnel, a project that's taken on many forms and spanned the decades, has gained new life as part of a high-speed rail proposal serving 27 million passengers connecting Boston with Washington D.C.  

As part of a pitch to Amtrak for its Northeast Corridor vision plan, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design called for a tunnel spanning the Long Island Sound from Port Jefferson to Milford, Conn., according to The Hartford Courant.

Anne P. Tuttle’s paintings and prints will be shown at Port Jefferson Village Center through November 13.

Eligible for up to $150,000 in grants.

The first day of school got off to a soppy start. It was raining C-A-T-S and D-O-G-S as the kids climbed aboard big yellow busses to start another year of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Change is also in the curriculum for area schools.

In Mt. Sinai School District the children returned to a new budget and . Comsewogue students and parents will be navigating a slightly more complex system for their elementary schools as the . In the high school, the kids at Port Jefferson School District will be .

Check out the gallery of photos from the first day of school.